Cleveland.com

Executions nationally at 15-year high as Ohio’s death penalty remains in limbo

COLUMBUS, Ohio — While Ohio has joined a few other states in pausing executions, the number of people put to death nationwide so far this year has hit a 15-year high. A handful of states have suddenly ...
Human Rights Watch

Joint NGO Statement: Saudi Arabia Must Halt All Executions and Uphold Commitments on Child Defendants and Drug Offenders

The undersigned organizations are deeply concerned by an alarming escalation in executions in Saudi Arabia, in which authorities implemented in the past weeks the execution of Abdullah al-Derazi, who ...
The New York Times

Firing Squads Expose the Brutality of the Death Penalty

Mr. Chammah is a staff writer at The Marshall Project and the author of “Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty.” See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más ...
KSAT

Federal judge upholds constitutionality of nitrogen gas executions

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – A federal judge on Thursday ruled that execution by nitrogen gas does not violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment, rejecting an Alabama inmate’s claim that it ...